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Our Focus newsletter provides monthly tax trends and topics written by our professionals.
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 03/27/2013Health Savings Accounts BenefitsMost individuals plan for the future, saving money to live off of during their eventual retirement. How many people plan in advance how to specifically pay for their medical expenses during retirement? |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 03/27/2013Beyond the Numbers: Chris HondaChris Honda joined Dermody, Burke & Brown in 1996. Chris is a Tax Senior Associate at the Firm with 23 years of public accounting experience. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 02/26/2013Bad Debts: A Good Deduction or a Bad DecisionThe issue of whether or not an individual can deduct “bad debts” related to monies loaned to his/her own business or businesses owned by others has been a point of contention between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and taxpayers for… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 02/26/2013Beyond the Numbers: John C. CalogeroJohn C. Calogero is Principal owner and managing member of Calogero & Associates, LLC. The Firm was started over sixty years ago by his father Nicholas J. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 02/26/2013Escape From New YorkEarly this year professional golfer Phil Mickelson, reacting to the increases in tax rates for high income earners, remarked that he would be paying over 60% in taxes. According to Sports Illustrated Lefty made upwards of $60 million in… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 01/28/2013Balancing on the "Cliff"Now that the dust has settled and we have avoided the "Fiscal Tax Cliff", we can catch our breath and look at how some of these tax changes will affect us. |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 01/28/2013Reporting Foreign Financial Assets: You Can Run, But Don’t Try to Hide!In our May 2011 edition of the Focus, we discussed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) initiative focused on information reporting requirements for taxpayers who maintained foreign financial accounts that, in the aggregate, exceeded $10,000… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 01/28/2013Beyond the Numbers: Anna Sanchez, CPA, CFEAnna Sanchez, CPA, CFE, Audit & Accounting Senior Associate, joined Dermody, Burke & Brown in 2007. As a Senior Associate at the Firm, she provides accounting and audit services to various industries including small businesses,… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 11/28/2012Hurtling Towards the Fiscal CliffJames Bond is back in the movie theaters celebrating fifty years of action adventure. Being a long time skier, one of my favorite opening sequences is from The Spy Who Loved Me. Agent 007 escapes enemy agents by skiing and shooting his… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 11/28/2012Beyond the Numbers: Nichole HoganNichole Hogan joined Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC in 2007. As a Tax Senior Associate at the Firm, she specializes in planning and executing reviews and compilations as well as preparing personal, corporate and partnership tax… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 10/24/2012Year-End/Year-Round Tax Planning GuideYear-End Tax Planning for 2012 gives you tips on how to take advantage of favorable federal tax law provisions and compensate for unfavorable ones – tips that you may discover can help you reduce your 2012 income-tax liability considerably… |
The Focus - Our Tax E-Newsletter | 10/24/2012Beyond the Numbers: Greg Smith, MBAGreg Smith, MBA joined Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC in 2011. As a Tax Associate at the firm, Greg provides tax and bookkeeping services to a variety of industries including physician groups, professional services and small… |